Breakfast on Pluto

Name: Breakfast on Pluto
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: November 16, 2005
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 59

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: November 16, 2005 | R

Summary: Director Neil Jordan weaves a wonderfully surreal and magical tale to bring us this funny, moving and poignant rites of passage account of a young man enduring the trials and tribulations he faces with a smile and unwavering faith in the inherent goodness in us all. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Director: Neil Jordan

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 128 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Jordan and McCabe's real triumph here, however, is the tenderness with which they imbues "Kitten," and the astonishing grace with which the extraordinary Murphy pulls it off. Read full review

J.R. Jones

Cillian Murphy gives a tour de force performance. Read full review

Eric Campos

If you like your boys pretty and your stories incredible, this movie is for you. Read full review

Wesley Morris

Ambles along nicely, but feels as if it's never going to end. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Although "Pluto" has a rollicky, endearing air, it's cooler than Jordan's other films. Read full review

Jami Bernard

Cross-dressing and the Irish Troubles don't mix well in Neil Jordan's cloying, fanciful Breakfast on Pluto. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

May be Jordan's wildest mis-shot yet, so dense with dying fizzle and limp ideas that I began to wonder if Jordan has an evil twin, or if there are in fact several Neil Jordans, among them at least one literate stylist and one humor-handicapped village idiot. Read full review

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PatrickJ.

Jan 5, 2006

If you have to see one gay movie this year, FORGET Brokeback Mountain! Breakfast on Pluto is totally funny, uplighting and by far more interesting. It earns your emotions without pandering for them and makes no excuses for its subject matter and thankfully doesn't have that If you have to see one gay movie this year, FORGET Brokeback Mountain! Breakfast on Pluto is totally funny, uplighting and by far more interesting. It earns your emotions without pandering for them and makes no excuses for its subject matter and thankfully doesn't have that drooling-for-an-Oscar quality like so many films...It's a story of many stories, not entirely linear, but circular- just like life. And, it's about the life of Kitten. And she is WONDERFUL! See the damn the movie.… Expand

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JohnK.

Jan 5, 2006

You'll Laugh!!!

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JennetP

Mar 19, 2011

Once again, the users have more collective insight than the critics. This film was lovely: funny, sad, and hopeful without ever straining after cheap emotion. The raves for Cillian Murphy's performance are richly deserved; his "Kitten" is sensitive, imaginative and sweet but also callowOnce again, the users have more collective insight than the critics. This film was lovely: funny, sad, and hopeful without ever straining after cheap emotion. The raves for Cillian Murphy's performance are richly deserved; his "Kitten" is sensitive, imaginative and sweet but also callow and self-absorbed, though this shortcoming that so peeves the critics (who, presumably, were running soup kitchens when THEY were 17) helps protect him from the violence in his life. Moreover, he gives it up in the course of the film, moving from sentimental, overly-scripted fantasies about love to the real thing with all its muddle and mess. Unlike "The Crying Game," the IRA is at the edges of this film, which I found interesting and probably closer to the experience of most in Northern Ireland and England at the time. The conflict would fade away entirely as the film attended to private concerns, exploding back onto the screen when least expected. There's lots more to praise: wonderful casting, even in very small roles (seeing Bryan Ferry was fun); outstanding costumes; perfect music, not only to evoke the period but also to comment on the action. I think Neil Jordan hit this one out of the ballpark, to use a phrase American critics will recognize, and I'm sorry it didn't garner more of their accolades. Oh well, they didn't like "Blade Runner" either, which may actually have helped the film's reputation.… Expand

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KimK.

Dec 15, 2005

(Would have given it a 10 had the ancient sound system in the theatre at which we saw it not swallowed some of the more heavily accented dialogue.) Cillian Murphy is astonishing in this. His is the first drag performance I've seen that substitutes femininity for camp, and does so (Would have given it a 10 had the ancient sound system in the theatre at which we saw it not swallowed some of the more heavily accented dialogue.) Cillian Murphy is astonishing in this. His is the first drag performance I've seen that substitutes femininity for camp, and does so perfectly. The film itself is well-paced and clever; if it has a flaw ("cloying," contrary to the critiques, isn't one of them), it's the lightness with which it touches on some very dark subjects. But it's Kitten's story, after all, with Kitten's shadings, and brava for that!… Expand

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Richard

Jan 21, 2006

A true fairy tale, in every sense. Great acting, great music, 1001 crazy nights & days. Bombs & blarney; slight, but touching. Love the robins, love Cillian &, most of all, love St. Kitten-not a mean bone in her body.

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BillyS.

Jan 9, 2006

"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart" And you thought the world was too cold for another Anne Frank, well, in Breakfast On Pluto, she's back in the guise of Patrick "Kitten" Braden, whose innocent naivety is her strength in an all to "serious, serious, "Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart" And you thought the world was too cold for another Anne Frank, well, in Breakfast On Pluto, she's back in the guise of Patrick "Kitten" Braden, whose innocent naivety is her strength in an all to "serious, serious, serious" search to find Mitzi Gayner! A great film from one of the most under-rated directors working today. I'm pretty sure "it moved" when I was watching Cillian Murphy, not that theres anything wrong with that!… Expand

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KenJ.

Nov 22, 2005

The star was excellent, the movie stunk.

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